Simpson manager not welcome - LETTER TO THE EDITOR: May 5

Sunday, May 5, 2013

Clarkston High School should not have brought in O.J. Simpson's manager The O.J. Simpson situation is very old and a very sore spot with the country.

For Clarkston High School to resurrect the murdering of two individuals and all the gory details that went with it, to bring that up after X-number of years to young minds -- I don't see the value of it. I don't know why it was done, and there are so many other stories you could expose kids to that are positive.

Why would you take something bloody and controversial and make the kids look at this and listen to it? It's a dead issue and it was a bad issue to begin with. It baffles me and my family members that the school system and the parents would even allow this to take place. It's a crime in itself, in my opinion. I live in Novi, and my children go to Novi High School. If it happened over here, I can assure you I would be checking into it more.

(O.J.'s manager Norman Pardo) was defending O.J. after all the evidence. To try and rewrite history with this lecture is incredible.

These students weren't around when the trial happened. They'll have to take his word for it until they research the other side of the story. He will promote one side -- his angle. If those kids don't have the initiative to check out what he's saying, then they'll be brainwashed. They will believe him as the Bible, whatever he says. It's his speech, so he could slant it, leave out facts and take things out of context.

The students only got one side of a very nasty chapter in our history that should be buried. It's been buried, and it should not be brought up.

There's no positive value. To resurrect this, you might as well resurrect Hitler and talk about the good side of Hitler. You can take anything and make two sides to it. That the administration allows this is over the top.